And yet to every bad there is a worse.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

Sometime it's really hardest things to keep yourself alone.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Love is a tender plant; when properly nourished, it becomes sturdy and enduring, but neglected it will soon wither and die.

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman